Support for a signaling device



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Patented Nov. 9, 1926.

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ISRAEL V. EDGERTON, 0E LOS AITGELES, CALIFQRNIA, ASSIGNOR TO DOUBLESAFETY SIGNAL COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A .CDRPQRATION OF ILLINOIS.

SUPPORT FOR A SIGNALING DEVICE.

Application filed December 1, 1919. Serial no. 341,722.

My invention relates primarily to an electric signaling device forautomobiles, and the object thereof, is to provide a device by means ofwhich the intention of the driver of the vehicle may be indicated topersons at the front and rear of the vehicle at the same time, either atnight or in the day time as to the direction in which he intends to'drive the vehicle or that he intends to stop the same. 1 I c In thedrawings forming a part of this application, Figure l'is a sideelevation of my improved signaling device secured tothe mud guard of anautomobile, a portion of the guard being shown and the rest of themachine omitted'for clearness of illustration.

Figure 2 is a. longitudinal fragniental section of the lamp end of atube taken at right angles to Figure 1 with the lining omitted.

Referring to the drawings, my signal is composed of a base plate 5 inwhich are mounted a number of electric lamp sockets 6. In the drawings Ihave shown three as that number produces an eiiicient signaling devicebut one or more tubes with a lamp or lamps may be used. These socketshave lamps? therein, the glass portion of which is frosted and areconnected by wires 8 to the lighting system (not shown) of the machine.The edges of the base plate are turned and form a cup shaped base inwhich-is received the tube receiving slab 9 which is secured to the baseplate by screws 10. Slab 9 is bored for the passage therethrough of thebodies 11 of the lamp tubes which have flanges 12 that prevent them frompassing through the slab. Thesetubes are preferably formed of clearglass and have semiglobular ends 13. The bodies of the tubes are linedwith opaque linings 14 which have portions cut out to form the desiredsignal indications. I have designed my device for use upon a mud guardon the left hand side of the machine. The upper tube has the signalingcharacters L and an arrowhead point ingto the left out out of thelining. The middle tube has the signaling characters It and an arrowheadpointing to the right out out of" the lining. The lowest tube has thesignaling characters S and an. arrowhead pointing toward the ground cutout of the lining.

' The letters L, R and S and the semiglobular ends are lined with asemitransparent re'd colored material 15. These linings are preferablypaper treated so as to be incombustible.

To the base plate is secured an attaching a bracket, being secured bythe screw that unites the base plate and slab. This bracket consistsofan upright end 16 through which a screw passes, a body member 17 whichrests upon the mud guard M, a depending stop member 19 and a rearwardlyprojecting bottom adjusting member 20 and a top adjusting member 21. Abolt 22 passes through a hole in-member 21and through an elongated slotH3 in member 20. 1617 19 and 20 are formed from a single piece of heavystrap iron. Member 21 is. also formed of heavy strap iron and has itsends bent upwardly so as to engage the mud guard whenpositioned for useand can be disconnected when the bracket is posi-' tioned and thensecured to the other part as shown.. A set screw 24 in member 17 bearsagainst clamping strip 18 secured to member 17 and holds the bracketfirmly positioned. The protective strip 26 keeps clamping strip 18 frominjuring the mud guard.-

1 By enclosing the lamps in round separated tubes I have provided a verycheap device and one in which the signals can be seen at night or in theday time-when a lamp is lighted in the tube that carries the desiredindicating signal. By using tubes and lamps with frosted glass, thereflection of the rays of the sun. shining upon the tube or thereflection of the rays oflight from the lamps of an approaching machinewill not render the signal invisible. By the use of twoSignalingcharacters to each tube one red and the other clear, thesignals are contrasted and thus rendered more pronounced and better thana single character as is usual with electricsignaling devices forvehicles. It will be understood that the lamps are con trolled byswitches that are within easy reach of the driver. While I have shownthe signals on one side of the tubes it will be understood that thereare like signals on the other sides of the tubes so that the sameMembers signals appear at'the front and back of each tube at the sametime.

Having described my invention, I claim: a A support for an automobileattachment comprising a base plate, a bracket secured to said baseplate, said bracket comprising an upright end to which is secured saidplate, a body member, a depending member, a bottom adjusting memberhaving an elongated slot therein, all formed from a siny gle piece ofstrap iron, a protective strip secured to said body member, a set screwin said body member, a top ad uStmg member having upright ends, and anadjusting bolt passing through the top, and bottom adjusting members.

In Witness that I Claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my namethis 21st day of Nov. 1919; I. V. EDGERTON.

